Vehicle-spring



(ModeL) P. J. KERN. VEHICLE SPRING.

No. 243,918. Patefited July 5,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHAON J. KERN, OF FRANKFORT, INDIANA.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,918, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed May 19, 1881.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHAON J. KERN, a citizen of the United States, resident at Frankfort, in the county of Clinton and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Vehicle-Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation ofa bottom view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section, and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are enlarged detail views.

This invention has relation to springs for side-bar vehicles; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transverse pivoted springs and the longitudinal springs, arranged at or near the middle line of the body of the vehicle, and connected at their ends to the side bars by said transverse piv oted springs, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the -box or body of the buggy or other vehicle, and B the side bars.

0 0 indicate cross bars or cleats secured to the body underneath, near its ends, and D represents a longitudinal cleat or bearing under the bottom of the body, along its middle portion, and secured to said cross-bars. This longitudinal bearing is designed usually to have its bearing-faces somewhat beveled outwardly, as shown, to form the seats for the longitudinal springs E, which are firmly secured thereto by their middle portions. The arrangement of these springs E is usually such that the elastic arms or ends will have a slightly oblique and outward action, depending upon the radial distance of their end connections or shackles, F, from the pivotal bearings of the (Model.)

transverse springs Gr. These transverse springs are connected to the cross-bars G by means of shackles or pivot-bearings H, and extend beyond said bearings outward on each sidefroin each end of each longitudinal spring E to the side bars, B, and are connectedat their outer ends to said side bars by means of shackles or clips, as indicated at K. These transverse springs are therefore elastic levers, the shorter arms of which are pivoted to the ends of the longitudinal springs, and the longer arms of which are connected to the side bars.

It will be apparent that the spring action extends from the central portion of the body to the side-bar connections. This arrangement is designed to give great elasticity, and to throw the spring action well to the center of the bodyor box, equalizing the balance thereof.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The transverselever-sprin gs G, connected to the side bars and to the ends of longitudinal springs E, secured to hearings on the body of the vehicle, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the side bars and the longitudinal springs E, secured to the central portion of the body of the vehicle, of the transverse springs Gr, pivoted to the body, and connecting the ends ofthe longitudinal springs to the side bars, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the side bars and body, of the longitudinal springs E, longitudinal bearing D, and the transverselever-springs Gr, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

PHAON J. KERN.

Vitnesses:

J. R. BROWN, HENRY Kns'rz. 

